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feebleness, and where the attainment of the objects desired has not tended to the destruc. tion (of the possessor).
(V. 9.) How shall we praise the princes of spotless fame of that (family), whose thoughts were nobly directed towards the protection of people in distress, the possessors of every blessing who, full of energy, inasmuch as they practised the conduct of the golden age, lad a meritorious existence, (and) who had the strength to destroy as well as to protect the whole earth ?
(10.) Among them there was the illustrious prince Nannuka, a touchstone to test the worth of the gold of the regal order, who playfully decorated the faces of the women of the quarters with the sandal of his fame; (and) of whom, inasmuch as his enemies without exception bowed down at the progress of his unprecedented valour, princes confounded, through fear, carried the command on their heads, like a garland.
(11.) As he conquered many hosts of enemies (and) was shaped like the god of love, his name, made known by the spread of the laudations uttered by groups of delighted panegyrists, at once took its place in the minds of deer-eyed women whose bodies were cmaciated with love of him), while despair unobstructed forcibly took hold on crowds of antagonists.
(12.) From him, who in battle defeated the enemies (and) whose speech was like that of Vakpati, the lord of speech,' was born the illustrious Vakpati, whose spotless fame roams about in all the three worlds, together verily with the rays of the sun.
(13.) Whose pleasure-mound 10as) that Vindhya, the peaks of which are charming with the sweet notes of his excellencies sung by Kirata women seated on spotless lotuses, (and) on which groups of peacocks are made to dance by the bubbling noise of waterfalls rushing down from its tops.
(14) As the moon and the Kaustubha (arose) from the ocean of milk, so were born from that home of wonder two sons, Jayasakti and Vijayasakti.
(15.) Princes, when they are met together, enraptured praise with shaking of beads the decds of both of them, by the unmeasured prowess of whom adversaries were destroyed, as woods are burnt by a blazing fire.
(16.) The younger of the two begat a son named Rahila, thinking of whom the enemics enjoy little sleep at night.
(17.) Who never tired, at the sacrifice of battle, where the terribly wielded sword was the ladle, where the oblation of clarified butter was made with streaming blood, where the twanging of the bow-string was the exclamation Dashat, (and) at which exasperated warriors marching in order were the priests, sucessful with his counsels (As with sacred hymns) sacrificed, like beasts, the adversaries in the fire of enmity, made to blaze up high by the wind of his unappeased anger.
(18.) Then that most excellent of rulers, whose vigour was aught but slight, begat the illustrious prince Harsha, who was almost like a tree of paradise, the flowers of whose widely expanding fame make the regions fragrant with the scent of their per. fame even now.
(19.) In him (were) fortune and eloquence combined, statesmanship (and) heroism, vigour radiant with the quality of goodness and complete patience come to him by nature, contentment and a desire for victory, modesty and self-confidence. Endless as are his cxcellencies, what is it then that we shall praise of that meritorious store of marvel ?
